Mugabe, who had been receiving treatment in Singapore for poor health, died on 6th September at the age of 95.
The controversial figure, who many saw as a tyrant but others admired for liberating the country, was ousted in a military coup in 2017.
His funeral on Saturday took place at a national sports stadium in Harare, the capital, and was attended by current president Emmerson Mnangagwa and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
A letter signed this week by seven Catholic Bishops of Zimbabwe read: “Some dwelt on his broad education and others on his achievements from the liberation struggle to State House as a principled person, liberator, his empowerment of the black majority, pan-Africanist, etc.
“We, the Bishops of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, agree with most of these attributes but they also raise a key question, ‘What went wrong?’ The intentions and the objectives were good but the manner of achieving them raised a number of ethical questions. This is where we, as a country, went wrong and continue to go wrong to this day.”
They specifically detail where they feel Mugabe’s leadership strayed into dangerous territory: “We are deeply concerned about the reported nocturnal visits by unknown masked men, beatings, torture, sexual assaults, abductions, harassment of dissenting voices and violent repression of demonstrations by Police.
“Such acts…
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